Lyra_Lycan
@Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
She/Her - Was bullied off reddit by mean moderators, but it’s a corporation anyway - 🏳️⚧️omni, heart - Pro kindness|gressiveness, Anti cruelty|bullshit.
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 1 week ago:
This is the rule for any account or mobile game, too - if it asks your age before asking for consent to farm, put any age below 13. It’ll either not farm you because it’s illegal or it’ll kick you out. If the latter, good riddance really
- Comment on Portal and Portal 2 are 80% off 1 week ago:
Hell yeah that’s a success. Some legends are rebuilding server support for The Crew, but it requires a PC copy to modify the files. Back in 2014 I bought it on Xbox.
Longevity alone is a great reason to switch. The knowledge that a higher price usually means a better product; complete control over how good the game looks (which usually means higher graphics settings compared to console); a higher chance of being able to play offline to skirt mandatory updates, data farming, glitch patches and other attempts to restrict your choices of playstyle; and less chance of your purchased license to play being indefinitely revoked due to some decision the publisher made. Because, let’s face it, publishers are usually the biggest assholes in the game industry, and the consoles are just another way of enhancing their profit and control over developers and consumers.
They’re a great, convenient product, but all convenience today comes with a higher cost than money.
- Comment on Portal and Portal 2 are 80% off 1 week ago:
Wait. I blacked out and my bank is missing numbers, what happened?!
- Comment on Portal and Portal 2 are 80% off 1 week ago:
Even better! They’ve since added TF2 and DOTA 2 to the bundle
- Comment on Portal and Portal 2 are 80% off 1 week ago:
A few sales ago there was a deal for the entire Valve collection. I finally got the Half-Lifes and a dozen others for about £25
- Comment on Oblivion leveling guides be like: 1 week ago:
Incroyable!
- Comment on Oblivion leveling guides be like: 1 week ago:
Pretty much every time I played Oblivion I’d spend a week in the tutorial cave, levelling Agility by using a turbo controller and rubber band, jumping in a corner where the ceiling height is just high enough so you can spam about 5 jumps per second. Later on you can do what you said near a goblin to max Sneak, but I think it’s quicker by that guy you need to kill for the Dark Brotherhood
- Comment on Microsoft announces 50% price hike for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate 1 week ago:
Yay, sweet! 50% more content, right?
Boycott Microsoft
- Comment on beans 🫘 1 week ago:
Clean version.
- Comment on beans 🫘 1 week ago:
I’m with you. Censorship is killing my sanity. But here’s the issue.
We already have content restrictions in place to “protect” under 18s whether they’re mature enough or not to see porn or gore. Physical and digital media have PEGI, BBFC, etc. ISPs have parental control - the UK has Content Lock. We have parents with personal preferences for their offspring’s access.
National or global censorship is useless. In their quest for power the corporations and governments are trying to turn the internet into a child-friendly internet. If these are the lengths they’re willing to go to, if their intentions were honest, it would surely be easier to let the adults have the freedom of adults and build a second internet for children. Maybe age lock that. Instead of killing everything consenting adults made.
- Comment on Can you please help me pick a gaming desktop for my son that can run Monster Hunter Wilds? 1 week ago:
I can see very little difference between the two, then again my PC refresh period is roughly eight years.
Both will run Monster Hunter Wilds with possibly 15% difference in framerate, but very manageable whichever you choose. I’ve listed below some ideal COMPONENTS to look for in a PC - if you can find a desktop with most of them your son will be set for a decade:
CPU:
- Intel Core Ultra 265K/F or higher
- AMD Ryzen 7900X3D or higher (X3D > X)
GPU:
- Nvidia 4080, 5070 or higher (but if you can wait one month, Super variants are going to be released soon - October-November is always a huge time for tech releases)
- AMD Ryzen 9700XT or XTX
RAM:
- Minimum 32GB, DDR5, 5200MHz.
- Brands: Corsair, Crucial, Kingston and PNY are the top
SSD:
- Minimum 2TB, M.2 NVME, 6000MB/s sequential read.
- Brands: Samsung, Western Digital Black/Blue, Seagate, Corsair and, again, Kingston
PSU (Power Supply):
- Brands: Corsair, MSI
Preference: Performance over RGB lighting aha
- Comment on DM me for homemade prophecy stones 1 week ago:
Even the pale one on top right has a foreskin
- Comment on DM me for homemade prophecy stones 1 week ago:
At least a couple are orgasmic. Hope this helps!
- Comment on New phonetic alphabet just dropped 2 weeks ago:
Eh, blame the English for making the language lmao
I’m all for this
- Comment on read banned books 2 weeks ago:
Now I’m all for free expression and fuck oppression, however… I can safely say the NSFW part is the word ‘fisting’ on the mug. References to advanced sexual acts are simply far too vulgar for youngsters’ eyes. Imagine: a six year old in the era of questioning everything, recognising that the term’s meaning is unbeknownst to them and deciding to ask their parent. The abject horror of a parent coming face-to-face with the slightly awkward dilemma of blowing off the answer, lying or telling the truth. Because that is literally the worst that can happen if a child sees a word they don’t know the meaning to.
There’s a serious issue with Not Safe For Work tags being used to mean Not Safe For Children but that’s another argument entirely
- Comment on booming 2 weeks ago:
I know there’s a whole ass committee for creating new emojis, but I hope one day they make the 🤣 in at least seven other orientations
- Comment on He looks so shocked 2 weeks ago:
This dog is (I shit you not) called Beaux Tox. Botox. dailymail.co.uk/…/Dog-born-facial-deformity-rescu…
- Comment on Public toilets in China demand ad views for loo roll 2 weeks ago:
On one hand, the government can absolutely afford to piss money away on stolen toilet rolls or whatever. On the other hand, this locking-down only happened because some people couldn’t be trusted and did the stealing in the first place. If everyone had respect for public amenities this wouldn’t have happened
- Comment on Lead 2 weeks ago:
Bro is a Meatcanyon caricature
- Comment on Say it slowly. 2 weeks ago:
Take this helpful explanation from Gemini:
- Comment on Say it slowly. 2 weeks ago:
Got the best copy, but I had to dip into Facebook to get it shudders
- Comment on Say it slowly. 2 weeks ago:
I am about to find a less cropped version, and I couldn’t help but appreciate Gemini explaining the post:
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 2 weeks ago:
Bruh if you souch as spit on said cruiser you’ll be wanted by the police for terrorism
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 2 weeks ago:
I hear you. I’ve taken to writing myself guides on how to set up things based on what worked for me, in case I need to again, purely because of how complicated each one is. Might write blogs later aha
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, the way things at going I feel like I should protect myself further with a VPN, but it does break some of my services’ access. Just another hurdle in the track to net independence that will be overcome! Heaven knows we’ve overcome many to get where we each are.
- Comment on Having resurrected The Crew, devs behind fan revival project are now working on a big mod to restore the racer to "greatness" 2 weeks ago:
I love communiyy
- Comment on Microsoft will offer free Windows 10 extended security updates in Europe 2 weeks ago:
This was announced several months ago, but yeah they are like ‘be our data pig or gtfo’
- Comment on home 2 weeks ago:
Valheim swamp ftw
Fr that’s the only place I’ve seen this type of structure
- Comment on reddit chatroom 2 weeks ago:
They look at the paedophiles that actively groom children and think “At least I’m not that bad”
- Comment on reddit chatroom 2 weeks ago:
Same with “nice”, “cool”, well any self-proclaimed positive adjective
